The Upper West Regional Manager of Zoomlion Ghana limited, Emmanuel Volsuuri has indicated that the Zoomlion Community Based Fisheries Project is on course and will achieve the expected outcomes which will impact beneficiary communities.The project is an initiative of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) under the food and security and environment facility in Northern Ghana with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).Mr. Volsuuri said this when a team from CIDA office came on a monitoring visit to the region to ascertain the progress of work of the project.Two communities in the Region, Busa and Sing both from the Wa Municipal are benefitting from the project.According to the Upper West Zoomlion Manager, groups from the two communities were engaged in the production process ranging from fish cage construction, mounting and floating fish cages, feeding and record keeping.The community members will also be engaged in harvesting, processing, storage and marketing of the fish.He said the engagement of the community members in all stages of the project is a strategy to ensure the sustainability of the project.He posited that there are about 150 dams and dugouts in the region whose huge fisheries potentials have not been tapped mainly due to ignorance, poverty and lack of appropriate technology.It is the hope that management of the project will replicate the project in all productive dams and dugouts in Northern Ghana.Mr. Volsuuri who also doubles as the project manager indicated that this was the first time fish cage culture was been practiced in the northern sector of Ghana and was very proud that it was the ‘’brain child’’ of the Upper West Regional Office of Zoomlion.The major objectives of the projects are to increase fish production in reservoirs which are currently under utilized; introduce cage fish culture in the upper west region as an alternative source of livelihood especially in the dry season and also to generate source of employment, income and livelihood to the dam site rural communities especially the youth and women.It is also to improve nutritional and health status of the rural communities, through regular consumption of fish.The Upper West Regional Manager of Zoomlion added that the organization is collaborating with relevant agencies and departments such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Water Research Institute, Fisheries Commission, Wa Municipal Assembly and Department of Women and Children Affairs to ensure the effective implementation of the project.The project coordinator, Emanuel Dery Dometier stated that the environmental impact assessment of the project has been conducted by EPA, while the water quality parameters on the reservoirs have been measured and monitored by the Water Research Institute.